Social Democratic Union of Macedonia

The Social Democratic Union of Macedonia (SDSM) is a social democratic and main center-left political party in Macedonia, founded in 1991. The SDSM was founded as a party of the center-left, and it became one of the two main parties in the country, with the other being the conservative VMRO-DPMNE party. From 1990 to 1998, from 2006 to 2006, and from 2016, the SDSM formed the government, and the party held 49/120 Macedonian Parliament and 5/81 mayorships in 2017.